Four Ways to Get Your Staff to Care About Quality

Louis Efron, a writer, Fortune 200 HR Executive, and Forbes magazine contributor, says it can be a challenge to convince your employees to care as much as you do about your business and the quality of products you are providing. Here are four culture-changing suggestions he has:

1. Make Every Job the Most Important Job at Your Company

Companies that don’t put an effort into engaging those who keep the business running behind the scenes are making a big mistake. By equally engaging these employees, managers and leaders stimulate improved innovation and cost reduction, and employee ownership across all areas of the business.

2. Build in Daily Reminders of Your Mission

In the day-to-day grind of every job at every company, employees can lose focus on why they are there. There are simple ways to make this happen. Perhaps notify your whole company whenever a new customer deal is closed.

3. Level Your Employee Playing Field

A lack of hierarchy and “bosses” can foster a sense of autonomy and ownership for all employees. Employees choose to perform at a high level not because someone is telling them to, but because they feel an ownership obligation to help their organization deliver on its mission.

4. Make it OK to Fail

Working in a culture where employees are afraid to make mistakes is stressful, limits the possibilities of discovering new and better ways of doing things, and reinforces the “just a job” mentality. True employee ownership comes from a sense of empowerment to experiment and fail.

AgBiome is a participative, self-managed organization where no one has a boss. Instead, employees self-assemble as teams around organizational issues that need to be tackled, and internal experts help drive important decisions.

To create a competitive advantage, you must consistently experiment with and learn from new ideas. Greenhouse Grower’s GROW initiative provides you with cutting-edge ideas and actionable advice that results in greater profits in everyone’s pocket.

Dümmen Orange has announced it will pledge $450,000 over the next three years to Seed Your Future, the non-profit organization whose mission is to promote horticulture in the U.S. and inspire people to pursue careers working with plants.

Each year, Luxflora hosts an international trip that allows participants to gain insights on trends and gather inspiration that ultimately will shape and support our industry in many ways. This year’s event took the group to Maison & Objet and Design Week in the City of Lights – Paris, France.

Ultimately, the quality of the plants you grow will be responsible for the success of the consumer, and consumer success will ideally translate to repeat sales. That’s why quality must be a top priority for all growers, according to Brad Julian, a Live Goods Buyer for Lowe’s Home Improvement, and Head Growers Dennis Crum of Four Star Greenhouse and Joe Moore of Lucas Greenhouses.